In person shopping is not so busy in NYC:
Black Friday was a real bust across the five boroughs — with COVID-19 appearing to ward off the usual crowd of customers from brick-and-mortar shops on what’s traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.
About 30 shoppers queued up outside Macy’s before it opened at 6 a.m. but the crowd had dissipated just a couple of hours later. The big-box retailer was peddling doorbusters like $19.99 watches and 40 percent off all boots and shoes.
“I got here at 7 (a.m.) but there was no line,” said Akhter Begum, 23, who opted for in-person retail therapy for good reason. “Sometimes online doesn’t show everything. Sometimes the size doesn’t work. Sometimes (items) look different from the pictures.”
Update: Here is live footage from Times Square.
Stupid people deserve to die so the rest of us can live.
Wal-Mart got my business of buying ourselves new 10.4 inch Samsung’s pads with free shipping.
Currently have clips holding this pad together as its separating on the seam.
Can’t afford our Premier’s buy Canadian crap.
Only got $300 all through this Pandemic crap.
I see they expect possibly, and maybe we may have some sort of vaccine next September.
Meh…better deals to be had at the liquidation sales. I’ll wait.
Yeah, unfortunately they’ll all be “Going out of business sales”. Then we’ll have half the country unemployed, and trying to get relief from the government. $300 don’t go very far, and I’m spending more of my “fixed income” just to buy groceries and gas. If it wasn’t for dwindling savings, I would be running out of money before running out of month, only to repeat every next month ad infinitum. So, there are massive giant sales being offered that nobody can now afford, which will plummet the income of the Mom n’ Pop stores incomes, and they won’t be spending the money they no longer have either, and most of them don’t have access to unemployment income either. Except for, of course, the big box, Amazon and tech companies, plus liquor and weed stores. So most everybody in the country will be either going into loan debt, assuming they can get a loan, or also be begging for relief from the government. Then, presumably, they’ll have us all exactly where they deliberately wanted us, and announce the step into the dystopian future of the great reset. The idea being that we can all be equally broke, equally miserable, and equally manipulated as well. Sigh. Yet they still wonder why there are people that shoot politicians in the US. Go figure.
So then … you’re describing The Great Reset … wherein “Consumers learn to adjust their expectations”. Free government money for breadlines.
I went to Ashley Furniture with my daughter at 7:00 AM. We were the first ones there. Easy to shop. We went to a large mall at 8:00 and the line dissipated as soon as the doors opened.
It’s like playing the stock market – the nervous and risk-averse always miss the best deals.
I was looking at the market instead. A stock that just dove because of a “we don’t like you” take on environmental regs. Buying at about 30% of the 2 year average. I’ll either lose it all or collect about 4x once the US election is resolved (or keep some of it going forward).
I heard from an Imperial employee that the silly little collaborative app Zoom had a market cap bigger than ExxonMobil. I checked the stock price and it was $110 in March and rose to almost $550/share in November. I bought more Amazon, Microsoft etc in March but nothing I bought performed like Zoom.
Yup, new and sexy is more important than “actually makes things and sells them.” How does Tesla’s market cap compare with, say, Ford or Toyota?
Can someone explain the Chipotle stock price to me? It makes no rational sense.
Why buy,when you can Burn Loot Murder ?And thus pay nothing,hell with the prospect of Sleepy joe and the retreads in command,looting will become preferable to shopping.
We need to cause the Karens and the Burn Loot Murder thugs to violently intersect.
Now that would be social justice at its finest.
JR, you’re right, and that intersection would be truly a great beer and popcorn drama!
New York City 2020 = Rome around 450 AD
It’s over.
Joe Bidet’s America. Send in the Undertaker. https://nypost.com/2020/11/27/black-friday-is-a-bust-in-nyc-thanks-to-covid-19/
““I got here at 7 (a.m.) but there was no line”
I got to the Real Canadian Superstore before 7:00AM because my wife worked there.(the Airdrie SuperStore is HUGE)
There were 3 people lined up at the door. They walked in, bought the TVs which they had come to buy, and left.
All day, that was the scenario. There were few actual Black Friday style sales to be had, and that translated to few customers.
In case any RETAIL CEOs are reading this: No Actual Sales=No Increase in Customers
Read it-Learn it. The whole point of Black Friday or Boxing Day or yadda yadda yadda is the Customers get REAL SALES!
Otherwise do not be surprised that the custom traffic is in line with any other regular day, just as the prices are.
Damned!
I love watching the US riots over shoes and cheap Chinese junk every Black Friday on youtube – please don’t make me watch 2019 re-runs.